Oleg Drokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:45:08AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:28, Oleg Drokin wrote: > > > > USB by it's nature is something external to the system. Unplugging a USB > > > > cable with a mounted drive attached should (IMHO) get the same result as > > > > unplugging an Ethernet cable with an NFS mount in progress. This means > > > > processes go into D state if they have outstanding writes, and for reads > > > > they may go D state depending on mount options, and then you wait for the > > > > device to become available again. > > > How do you distinguish between SCSI & USB storage in Linux on fs level? ;) > > You can have SCSI and IDE unpluggable devices too... > IDE code is not in kernel proper yet. > As for SCSI, it is not recommended to unplug scsi devices with PC > powered.
what about SCA? it's 80pin SCSI (the 68 pin wide, with power and a few ID setting signals). it's purpose is to allow hot swapping. -- J o h a n K u l l s t a m [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
